diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 04f2ab3bd06..e4d0d9ad11e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Package: ceph-fuse
 Architecture: linux-any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends},
-Recommends: fuse,
+         fuse,
 Description: FUSE-based client for the Ceph distributed file system
  Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed
  storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object,